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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY J. SPENCER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SCHOLARS COMPANION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,417, dated January 4, 1867.

Application filed June 18, 1886. Serial No. 205,526. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY J. SPENCER, of

Brooklyn, New York, have invented certain tion of receptacles for school-childrens implements, resembling that shown and described in Letters Patent of -ihe United States, No. 291,415, issued to me January 1, 1884, in respect of the particulars that they contain a water-proof pocket for holding the sponge and an elongated pocket for the reception of pencils and pens, and are composed of cloth or other flexible material.

To this end the invention consists in making the scholarscompanion, or receptacle for school-childrens implements, in the form of an oblong bag closed at both ends, but having in one of its sides a longitudinal slit, which serves as the mouth or opening through which access is had to the interior of the bag for the deposit of a sponge in one of its ends, which is lined with waterproof material, and for the introduction of pencils and pens into its other end, which is suitably. elongated to contain them. The central portion of the bag is encircled by two sliding gatheringrings, for gathering into folds the fabric which they inclose, and, when desired, closing either or both the entrances to the sponge or pencil pockets, respectively. The central portion of the bag between the two pockets serves as the handle by which the receptacle is conveniently grasped in the hand of the carrier.

The accompanying drawings of a scholars companion containing the invention are as follows: Figure l is an elevation showing the pockets closed by the gathering-rings, respectively. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the water-proof sponge-pocket open and the pencila longitudinal slit, B, in one of its sides,

through which access is' had to its interior. Two sliding gathering-rings, O O, which are drawn on over the ends of the bag, gather into folds the fabric composing the central portion of the bag, and either or both rings, when pushed to the ends of the slit B, serve, as the k case may be, to close either or both the pockets D and E in the ends of the bag A.

The pocket E is for holding a wet or moist sponge, and is lined with oiled silk, rubber cloth, or other water-proof material.

The pocket D is suitably elongated to adapt it for containing pencils and pens.

,To remove the sponge from the pocket E, the rings 0 G are pushed to the end of the slit B farthest from the pocket E, when thesponge can be taken out. Similarly, to open the pocket D, the rings 0 O are pushed to the end of the slit B which isfarthest from the pocket D.

I claim as my invention- As an improved article of manufacture, the

herein-described receptacle for school-chiland having its central portion inclosed by the slidinggathering-rings C O, as and forthe purposes set forth.

MARY J. SPENCER.

NVitnesses:

R. G. Howns, M. L. ADAMS. I 

